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Label:The curved porcelain plaques that decorate this plant stand were likely sold by the Sèvres porcelain factory to the marchands-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier and Dominique Daguerre, who then specially commissioned this piece from the cabinetmaker Martin Carlin. Marchands-merciers were trendsetting merchants who are credited with the creation of many novel forms of porcelain-mounted furniture in the eighteenth century.

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